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Accidental
- The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed the World
- By: Tim James
- Narrated by: Tim James
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time. Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly disproved by a failed experiment or rival research. Science moves at a rate of inches per decade and we like it that way. But occasionally, just occasionally, a complete fluke happens and changes everything. This is a rip-roaring adventure through science gone wrong, accidentally changing humanity for the better.
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Accidental
- The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed the World
- Narrated by: Tim James
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2024
- Language: English
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12 Revolutionary Discoveries That Could Change Everything
- By: Laura Helmuth, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Laura Helmuth
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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We’re living in a golden age of scientific breakthroughs and technological advancements. Now, you have the chance to dig into some of the most fascinating and important scientific advancements in recent years. Unexpected, consequential, and often counterintuitive, 12 Revolutionary Discoveries That Could Change Everything offers an inspiring introduction to science in the 21st century. Taught by Scientific American editor in chief Laura Helmuth, these eye-opening lectures will satiate even the most inquisitive mind.
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12 Revolutionary Discoveries That Could Change Everything
- Narrated by: Laura Helmuth
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-02-2024
- Language: English
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Bedeviled
- A Shadow History of Demons in Science
- By: Jimena Canales
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began to employ hypothetical beings to perform certain roles in thought experiments―experiments that can only be done in the imagination―and these impish assistants helped scientists achieve major breakthroughs that pushed forward the frontiers of science and technology.
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Bedeviled
- A Shadow History of Demons in Science
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2020
- Language: English
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Naming Nature
- The Clash Between Instinct and Science
- By: Carol Kaesuk Yoon
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, taxonomy is viewed by many as an outdated field, one nearly irrelevant to the rest of science and of even less interest to the rest of the world. Now, as Carol Kaesuk Yoon reminds us in Naming Nature, taxonomy is critically important, because it turns out to be much more than mere science. It is also the latest incarnation of a long-unrecognized human practice that has gone on across the globe, in every culture, in every language since before time: the deeply human act of ordering and naming the living world.
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Naming Nature
- The Clash Between Instinct and Science
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2010
- Language: English
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A Force of Nature
- The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
- By: Richard Reeves
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Ernest Rutherford, who grew up in colonial New Zealand and came to Cambridge on a scholarship, made numerous revolutionary discoveries, among them the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the “half-life” of radioactive materials, which led to a massive re-evaluation of the age of the Earth―previously judged just 100 million years old. Above all, perhaps, Rutherford and the young men working under him were the first to split the atom, unlocking tremendous forces―forces, as Rutherford himself predicted, that would bring us the atomic bomb.
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A Force of Nature
- The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2022
- Language: English
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Science Denial
- Why It Happens and What to Do About It
- By: Gale Sinatra, Barbara Hofer
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for the benefit of their health and wellbeing, as well as their communities, nations, and planet.
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Science Denial
- Why It Happens and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2021
- Language: English
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The Environment
- A History of the Idea
- By: Paul Warde, Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Authors Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin trace the emergence of the concept of the environment following World War II, a period characterized by both hope for a new global order and fear of humans' capacity for almost limitless destruction. It was at this moment that a new idea and a new narrative about the planet-wide impact of people's behavior emerged, closely allied to anxieties for the future. With the rise of "the environment", the authors argue, came new expertise, making certain kinds of knowledge crucial to understanding the future of our planet.
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The Environment
- A History of the Idea
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2019
- Language: English
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In Search of Divine Reality
- Science as a Source of Inspiration
- By: Lothar Schäfer
- Narrated by: Patrick Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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The message of modern physics is that physical reality has, at its frontiers, all the aspects of a transcendent order. At the foundation of things, elementary particles can exert instantaneous long-distance influences on each other, can be meaningfully said to have mind-like properties, and can exist in states which are, as Heisenberg wrote, "not quite real, but between the idea of a thing and a real thing."
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In Search of Divine Reality
- Science as a Source of Inspiration
- Narrated by: Patrick Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 31-12-2014
- Language: English
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
- By: Amir Aczel
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for...
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2014
- Language: English
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No Shadow of a Doubt
- The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- By: Daniel Kennefick
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to "weigh light" by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has been clouded by myth and skepticism.
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No Shadow of a Doubt
- The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- Language: English
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God According to God
- A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along
- By: Gerald Schroeder
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In his first book since 2002's acclaimed The Hidden Face of God, popular scientist Gerald Schroeder combines decades of scientific research and biblical study to present a groundbreaking new paradigm of how to understand God. Fans of Jack Miles' God: A Biography, Francis Collins' The Language of God, and Richard Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible will find much to contemplate in God According to God.
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God According to God
- A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 31-01-2020
- Language: English
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Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep
- And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution
- By: David Stipp
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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For fans of accessible and fun popular science comes an exploration of evolution’s quirkiest puzzles and most enduring mysteries. Why do cats live longer than dogs? Why do bees have yellow stripes? Why can we smell a skunk from a mile away? Such questions can be seen as puzzles about...
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Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep
- And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-09-2025
- Language: English
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Genetics in the Madhouse
- The Unknown History of Human Heredity
- By: Theodore M. Porter
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages.
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Genetics in the Madhouse
- The Unknown History of Human Heredity
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-06-2018
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Pioneers in the History of Science
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 scientific pioneers who have shaped the development of science over 500 years.
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In Our Time: 25 Pioneers in the History of Science
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2023
- Language: English
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The ABC of Relativity
- By: Bertrand Russell
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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The ABC of Relativity is still considered today, nearly 90 years after its first appearance, as an authoritative and accessible introduction to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. While there's nothing particularly easy about understanding the Theory of Relativity, many have found that Russell's explanation is easier to understand than Einstein's own writings on the topic. Russell covers topics such as time dilation and curved space-time, using non-scientific examples of train travel and aerial views of the terrain.
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The ABC of Relativity
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2022
- Language: English
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position
- The Earth as Lover
- By: Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Jennie Klein
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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What's sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely - or, perhaps, broadly - what Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art, exhibitions, and films. In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment.
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position
- The Earth as Lover
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-02-2022
- Language: English
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Nothing
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Frank Close
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about "nothing". What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - "nothing" - exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there.
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Flotsametrics and the Floating World
- How One Man's Obsession Revolutionized Ocean Science
- By: Curtis Ebbesmeyer
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment. Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he's never held a conventional academic appointment.
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Flotsametrics and the Floating World
- How One Man's Obsession Revolutionized Ocean Science
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2009
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- Penguin Classics
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
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On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and influential books of its time and remains one of the most significant contributions to philosophical and scientific thought. The theories Darwin sets out here had an immediate and profound impact on the literature and philosophical thought of his contemporaries and continue to provoke thought and debate today. Written for the general public of the 1850s, On the Origin of Species laid out an evolutionary view of the world which challenged contemporary beliefs about divine providence and the fixity of species.
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On the Origin of Species
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2019
- Language: English
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The Invention of Air
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a...
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The Invention of Air
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2009
- Language: English
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